Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-02

Judge Carpenter, of Madison, in the
matter OF the estate of @. G. Wash.
burn has been filed at La Crosse by
the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and
Safe Deposit Company, of Phildel-
phla, and Mrs. Jeanette w. Kelsey,
daughter Of the late G. G. Washburn.
Appeal is taken from that portion Of
tie decree which provides that the
sum of $8O,242 shall be paid to the
Fidelity Company to make up with
the trust funds in the hands OF the
company and Cyrus Woodman, the
principal necessary to secure the in
come above named.
The Indian Bureau has given up all
hopes of finding Geo. Bell, formerly of
Ashland, late superintendent of the
Vermlllion Indian farm, and will prob
ably appoint Fred Colby, of Tower,
to the position. 1t will be remembered
that Bells canoe was found capsized
some weeks ago on Lake Vermillion,
and no trace of him has been seen
since.
THE state has just issued in book
form the transactions Of the Wiscon.
sin Agricultural Society, the proceed
ings OF the agricultural convention at
Madison last February. the papers of
the State Horticultural Society and
the State Dairymen's Association. to-
gether with those of the University
Department of Agriculture. The pa
pers form q handsome volume of l. l73
pages.
TWENTY. SEVEN orphan children
have been provided comfortable
homes in the town OF Highland, Iowa
County.
GEORGE Cooking, of Mineral Point,
killed wild goose that measured
seven feet from tip to tip of its wings
and four feet from bill to tail.
A COMPANY has been incorporated
to build an opera house at Madison
with g. seating capacity of 1000 at O.
cost of $4,000.
LENA GEIsSERT, recently discha ged
rom an insane asylum as cured, at
tempted sticide at her home In Mil
wauKee on the 28th by setting fire to
her clothes, which she had previously
saturated with kerosene. She was
horribly burned and will probably
die.
N. C. FOSTER, the deposed postmas-
ter at Faitchild, Eau claire County.
has instituted a boycott against J. G,
Marvin, his Democratic successor.
Foster has established private post
Office and mails all his letters and cir
culars on the railway postal cars,
buys his stamps and postal cards at
the Eau Claire post-ottice in large
quantities; and furnishes drafts on
Chicago to the Fairchild business men,
thus giving the Fairchild money order
department black eye.
A SHIPMENT of ten carloads of bot
tied beer to Sydney and twelve car
loads to Melbourne, Australia, was
made by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing
Company of Milwaukee, on the 25th.
In each carload was 600 dozen bot
ties.
A HUNTER pear Canton, Barron
County, killed three bears in one day.
One of them weighed 275 pounds.
STEPHEN LAWRENCE lost an arm by
the accidental discharge of his gun
while he was hunting near his home in
Chipmonk Cooley. La Crosse County.
A GLASS factory is to be started at
La Crosse. The works will be put In
operation in the spring of 1888.
A TRAIN newsboy employed on the
Burlington road is wanted at La
Crosse Tor robbing q passenger OF
10.
The Ashland Gold md Silver Smelt-
ing Company has been Incorporated
with capital of 100000. The in
corporators are: John II. Knight,
Thos. Borden and Sam. s. Fiield.
Work has been commenced on the
foundation OF the building, and 8
large amount OF machinery is en-
route from the East. Several hun
dred men will be employed.
SAM Il. BROWN, manager of the Che
quamegon Hotel at Ashland, says that
house will be kept open all winter
and additional steam heating appar-
atus is now being put in.
STEPHEN LAWRENCE lost an arm by
the accidental discharge of his gun
while he was hunting near his home in
Chipmonk Cooley, La Crosse County.
THE murdered mayor of Maxwell,
Ia, j. 0. French, was prominent in
Eau Claire business circles fifteen years
ago.
THE bluffs on the Wisconsin side of
the river opposite Winona, are being
ravaged by fire and in many instances
inhabitants have been burned out OF
house and home.
THERE are l4O free high schools in
the state.
CONRAD ULRlCH, of Fountain City,
Trempealeau County, died suddenly
IN Kansas City.
JAMES CLARK, arrested at La Crosse
for setting fire to q disreputable house,
was sentenced to one years imprison-
ment.
A BUNGLING burglar who on the
9th blew open the safe in the gun
shop OF J. G. Welles, 423 East Water
Street, Milwaukee, besides cracking
the sale succeeded also in cracking his
own head, which he is now nursing in
cell at the central police station.
He gives his name as Charles Ander-
son, his age as 20 years, and his oc-
cupation as carpenter.